{"id":28564,"date":"2016-09-14T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/behemoth\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:49:50","slug":"films-2016-behemoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2016-behemoth\/","title":{"rendered":"Behemoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/250806_01-1000x563.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Behemoth<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Beixi moshuo<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DIRECTOR: <\/strong>Zhao Liang\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>COUNTRIES: <\/strong>China, France\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>YEAR: <\/strong>2015\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Chinese\u00a0 <strong>SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>90 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SECTION:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/weekender-2016\/\">Weekender 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the insatiable biblical monster Behemoth, Chinese coal mining is eating its way through Inner Mongolia. Zhao Liang, NIHRFF winner 2011, documents the high price that the environment and miners have to pay for this megalomaniacal state project. With images that are as precise as they are poetic and an incredible sense of cinematic rhythm, Liang lends his perhaps best film an urgency and impact that is hard to resist. In its raw beauty, the film moves inexorably from a certain fascination to a silent and therefore all the more insistent outrage at the extent of the destruction. The director is guided by Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy, from which not only commentary passages but also the colour symbolism of the film are borrowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behemoth - Trailer - Stockholm International Film Festival 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-4kbx8x748Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ZHAO LIANG<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liang Zhao was born in north-east China and graduated from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. Zhao has lived in Beijing since 1993 and works as an independent documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist in the fields of photography and video art. His works have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography (New York), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Haus der Kullturen der Welt (Berlin), the Museo Reina Sof\u00eda (Madrid) and numerous other art galleries and museums around the world. With his unique vision and sharp reflections on social issues and conditions, Zhao is at the forefront of documentary filmmaking in China today. Crime and Punishment (2007) was honoured with the Nuremberg International Film Award in 2007. In addition, his films Petition (1996-2008) was selected for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, Together (2010) for the 61st Berlin Film Festival and Behemoth (2015) for the 72nd Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FILMOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paper Airplane (2001), City Scene (2004), Return to the Border (2005), Farewell Yuanmingyuan (2006), Crime and Punishment (2007, NIHRFF-Gewinner 2007), Petition (2009), Together (2011), Behemoth (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SCRIPT: <\/strong>Zhao Liang, Sylvie Blum\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>PRODUCER: <\/strong>Sylvie Blum\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>CAMERA: <\/strong>Zhao Liang\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PRODUCTION: <\/strong>INA\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>WORLD SALES: <\/strong>Mich\u00e8le Gautard, INA\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: <\/strong>Johan De Faria, Upside Distribution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WEBSITE<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/zhaoliangstudio.com\/\" target=\"_NEW\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/zhaoliangstudio.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behemoth Beixi moshuo DIRECTOR: Zhao Liang\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRIES: China, France\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: 2015\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): Chinese\u00a0 SUBTITLES: English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: 90 min\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION: Weekender 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,365,136,366],"tags":[367,138,326],"class_list":["post-28564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-filme-2016-en","category-titel-anzeigen-en","category-weekender-2016-en","tag-2016-en","tag-archive","tag-weekender-en"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28576,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions\/28576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}